Hairdressing means



F. C ERISANO HAIR DRESSING MEANS Filed Feb. 10, 1938 May 30, 1939.

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Patented May so, 1939 2,160,471

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlQE HAIRDRESSING MEANS Francis Cerisano, New York, N. Y.

Application February 10, 1938, Serial No. 189,748

4 Claims. (01. 132-33) This invention relates to the art of hairdresstween prongs I4 and I5 during winding of the ing, and particularly to means for curling hair tuft of hair around said prongs; the upper leg and holding it in the curled condition. of the pin remaining above said prongs.

An object of the invention is to provide a hair On completion of this hair winding operation 5 curling tool adapted to receive a hair clasping the pin 23 is pressed laterally to free it from 5 pin for attachment to the lock of hair being notches 2| and 24, then slid off the beveled edge curled, in combination withasecond tool adapted l9, whereupon tool II is withdrawn longitudito hold the clasping pin in position upon the nally of the pin, leaving the pin integrated with curling tool until completion of the curling operthe lock of. wound hair forming the curl. The

ation. tool I! may remain in position upon tool ll, 10

Another object is to provide in such a pin posiready for reception of another pin similar to the tioning tool, a construction which insures repin 23, for application to a second tuft of hair tention of the pin in proper position, and at the to be wound into a curl, and the process repeated same time facilitates withdrawal of the tool, as often as necessary to complete the coiffure.

following completion of the curling of the hair- I claim: 15 lock, such withdrawal being eifected without dis- 1. A hair curling instrument comprising a turbing the firm clasp of the pin upon curled pronged element having a pin retaining tool lock. mounted thereon, means integral with said pin Afurther objectisto provide a novel method of retaining tool to hold both legs of a pin in a joining a lock of hair into a securely held spiral, plane perpendicular to the plane of the prongs 20 or curl. of said pronged element, and simultaneously to These and other objects of the invention will direct one leg of the pin into the space between become apparent upon examination of the folthe prongs, and to hold said leg in said position lowing description of means entering into the during the curling operation. practicing of the invention, and the illustration 2. A pin retaining tool comprising an upper thereof in the accompanying drawing. It is to fiat portion with a beveled edge, a lower portion be understood, however, that these are merely of. a shape adapted for retention upon a hair illustrative, there being no intention to limit winding instrument, and means for deflecting scope of the invention, except as indicated in the one leg of a pin obliquely with respect to said appended claims. upper flat portion, while the second leg of the 30 In the drawing: pin lies along said upper flat portion, said means Figs. 1 and 2 are plan and side elevation views operating to yieldably hold the pin in position r s t v y, f h part n rin int th p upon the tool as the latter slides along the hair ferred method of practicing the invention; winding i t u t, Fi 3 nd 4 r plan and side elevation vi ws 3. In a one-piece hairpin holding tool slidable of the preferred form of pin retaining tool; and it di ally f a hair curling instrument, 85 Figs. 5 and 6 are end elevation views of the pin means integral t said t for yjeldably retaining tool. taining the pin in position longitudinally of the Reference character ll indicates a curling t u t during sliding of the tool thereon, 1100 W ch y 0 y t have a comb Portion said means further, and simultaneously, operat- 40 The Curling Portion f. the i001 includes the ing to automatically and inherently cause one two prongs I 4, l5 which join to for the Shank branch of the pin to diverge from the other, and to receive the Pin holding tool As Show, remain diverged therefrom until removed from tool I! has a shape correspond in end the tool, and means facilitating removal of the Vatmn (Flgs- 5 and 6) to a of the numeml pin by lateral displacement thereof with respect 45 6, whose closed lower half is adapted to slide to Said tooL ggg z f i g z i ggg ii i g g: $22 23,2 3 4. In a. one-piece hairpin holding tool slidable portion of the tool I! includes a flat upper surlongitudinally of i s fl 9 upper surface substantially para] e1 0 t e longiface shghtly beveled at Its outer edge I and tudinal axis of the curling instrument over which notched at 2| to receive the rounded part 22 of the hair pin 2 there being a record notch 24 one branch of the pin extends, said surface havaligned t t h 2|, t t lower edge of t ing an exposed edge facilitating removal of the depending side, or apron 26 (Figs. 5 and 6) of P from the 11001 by lateral displacement, after the tool. The lower straight prong or leg 2'! sufficient longitudinal displacement to insure 55 of the pin 23 is retained in said notch 24, and clasping relationship with the curled'hair. the combined effect of the two notches 2| and 24, is to hold the lower leg of pin 23 securely be- FRANCIS CERISANO. 

